Sentence examples for powerful confession from inspiring English sources

The story keeps everything short and simple, but again, it's the contextual details that make Cibele a powerful confession.

(This path to freedom, and especially the fact that a white woman was recording it, brings to mind the controversy that surrounded William Styron's powerful novel "The Confessions of Nat Turner").

Real confessions promise powerful emotional immediacy.

The woman originally pleaded not guilty last year to a 12-count indictment charging her with arranging the meetings but changed the plea, giving prosecutors a powerful legal weapon -- a confession by a supposed accomplice -- with which to prosecute Mr. Giordano.

Many investigators still see a powerful logic in the teenagers' confessions.

Finally, St. Augustine, the bishop of Hippo, was a great pastor, a vigorous controversialist, a sensitive and passionate writer (the Confessions), and the powerful theologian of The City of God.

That is precisely why confessions are such powerful evidence of guilt.

Given the recent depredations among the powerful, the timing of Lieberman's confession was odd.

In the twentieth century, the void left by the loss of religion was sometimes filled by totalizing political systems, and the result was a literary genre of confession that is as powerful and probing as the Augustinian kind.

"I was thinking about the powerful honesty of Alcoholics Anonymous," explains Mark, describing Confession by the Body.

There is no more powerful evidence in a criminal trial than a confession by the defendant himself.